Door-holder.



J. P. HOLTZHOUSER DOOR HOLDER APPLICATION FILED MAB. 4, 1916 1,266,269., Patented Mayl l, 1918.

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JACOB P. EOLTZHOUSEH, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGHOE TO THE STANLEY WORKS, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

DOOR-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

?a-tented May 1 1 igildc Application filed March 4, 1916. Serial No. saoee.

To (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB P. HOLTZ- HOUSER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Britain, county of Hartford, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Holders, of which the following is a. specification.

This invention relates to a device for holding a door in open position. Intended originally for use in connection with barn and garage doors, it is nevertheless adaptable for other uses.

in the drawingsl igure 1 is a sectional top view showing the position which the parts assume when the door is closed.

Fig. 2 is a similar view but showing the position when the door is open.

Fig. 3 is a section of the holder on the line 3-3 of Fig. looking in the direction of the arrow.

Fig. i is a front view of the keeper.

In the drawings, n. denotes the frame of the door, I) the door itself swung on hinges as at c. The holder comprises a bar 5, secured at one end to the door at a considerable distance from the hinges, being loosely supported from the laterally extending arm 6 of the bracket 7. To connect the bar with the bracket a bushing 8 is drawn up from the bar, which fits loosely in the aperture in the laterally extending arm 6 of the bracket 7, and the two parts are united as by a pivot pin :20. This provides a strong rigid hearing to take the shearing strains to which i the parts are subjected, and the looseness of the fit of the bushing permits of the free rotation of the bar, and also of raising the opposite end of the bar when force is applied to the projecting end 9 of the bar as by pulling down on the handle and chain 10. At its opposite end the bar is notched as at 11, and slides through an aperture 14 of the keeper 15, which is secured to the underside of the top of the door frame, the notches in the bar engaging with the lower edge of the keeper as the bar drops by gravity when the door is open.

The pivotal support of the bar and the angular arrangement of the keeper permit of the bar folding in under the top of the door frame, as clearly seen in Fig. 1, when the door is closed. This arrangement also provides for positioning the bar at such an angle to the keeper and door as to get a good purchase to withstand the heavy wind pressures without tearing loose the fastening, either on the door or the door frame.

In accordance with the provisions of the patent statutes, 1 have described the principle of operation of my invention, together with the apparatus which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof; but 1 desire to have it understood that the apparatus shown is only illustrative, and that the invention can he carried outby other means.

I claim as my invention;

1. A device of the character described ineluding a keeper adapted to be rigidly secured to the under face of a top door frame member and having a depending apertured portion, a bar having the under side of its free end notched and slidably arranged through the apertured portion of said keeper, a bracket adapted to be rigidly secured to a swinging door and having the opposite end of the bar secured thereto by a vertical pivot pin for both horizontal pivotal and vertical rocking motion, and means at the pivoted end of said bar for rocking the same.

2. A. device of the character described including a keeper adapted to be rigidly secured to the under face or a top door frame member and having a depending apertured portion, a bar having the under side of its free end notched and slidably arranged through the apertured portion of said keeper, a bracket adapted to be rigidly secured to a swinging door and having the opposite end of the bar secured thereto by a vertical pivot pin for both horizontal pivotal and vertical rocking motion, and means attached to said bar at the opposite side of the pivotal support from the free end thereof for. rocking said bar to release the same from said keeper.

JACOB P. HOLTZHOUSER. 

